The Yellow And Holy Nationstates of Megistos is a huge, efficient nation, ruled by Magnus Veinheim with a fair hand, and remarkable for its soft-spoken computers, digital currency, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 810 million Megistians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The relatively small, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Paradise. The average income tax rate is 38.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Megistian economy, worth 143 trillion Freys a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 177,147 Freys, with the richest citizens earning 5.1 times as much as the poorest.

Wood-framed catapults are ready to launch diseased corpses into besieged cities, abortions are routinely performed in the nation's hospitals, a sledgehammer and a spray can are seen as the default tools of political debate, and unemployed youngsters trained to kill are being released en masse into society. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Megistos's national animal is the Pegasus, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Megistos is ranked 64,738^th in the world and 890^th in 10000 Islands for Most Influential, scoring 290 on the Soft Power Disbursement Rating.